Returning to Your Soul-Home
Retreat
A Tender Solitude Retreat for Embodied Living, Healing & Learning with Plant Spirits
Welcome, I’m Prajna.
I’m Anam Ċara*, a soul friend, sister, mother, crone, author, and a seasoned retreat facilitator.
As a Curandera, I weave my prior trainings to facilitate initiations, learning, and healing with the spirits of plants for self-realization, love & meaningful connections.
“Prajna’s retreats have affected every part of who I am—body, mind and soul. The potency of the plant teachers has penetrated the dense stagnation of a long illness. My dharma healing path is regenerated with unexpected joy and vitality—from exile to belonging.”
JOSEPHINE KENNEDY
Retreat Participant
– An Invitation For You –
Dear Soul Friend
Welcome to Your Soul Home
I weave professional skills as a body-centered psychic therapist, archetypal soul guide, and decades of lived experience from Irish roots. I’ve completed apprenticeships in the Shipibo tradition with Maestra Sulmira Velahidalgo and Maestro Jorge Lopez, and with Tobaquero Maestro Ernesto Garcia.
Since 2014, I’ve facilitated retreats in England, Ireland, Germany, Wales, the United States, and Peru, with the generous support of our hosts. The opportunity to learn, repair, and rest in dynamic circles together is an honor. I look forward to supporting your intentions.
My journey with plant spirits began twenty years ago. I was sitting on our living room sofa with my three young daughters (ages 10, 8, and 8) watching family videos when the sonogram of my twins in utero played.
“This is the best way to carry twins. There are two of everything: the inner sac, the outer sac, and the dividing membrane. They’re traveling first class. This is the best way to carry twins.” –Sonogram Technician.
Jolted, I realized a great abuse, a birth violation by the ‘power-over’ dynamics within the industrial medical complex. My babies were taken from my womb three months early without need or informed consent. The consequences endure to this day. I blamed myself for this negligence. I was overwhelmed by intense emotions of shame, loss, and violation. I withdrew, barely capable of tending to my children.
I wanted to be present, not tangled in remorse and disconnection. A friend introduced me to the Shipibo health care system. I began dietas with plant spirit mentors in Peru. This fortified my resolve to recover and reclaim my body-soul life. This initiation worked in tandem with underground cycles of uncovering powerful feminine archetypes. I have arrived home.
I refer to Ayahuasca as the ‘dark mother of the jungle.’ My journeys with her recovered my womb, rooted my legs—body as a tree—and continues to grow me.
My study with Jorge and Sulmira taught me essential disciplines, protection, and guided profound learning. For several years, my women’s groups came with me to Peru to learn and deepen their feminine embodiment. Soon, I was invited to work directly with Jorge and Sulmira—they have entrusted me to carry the spirits of the plants. Read: Drinking the Dark Brew, How I Became an Apprentice to the Shipibos.
In 2021, I completed a 7-year apprenticeship with Maestro Ernesto Garcia and received the seals of protection to work as a Tabacquera.
“Many more people will come to work with you—you are very ready…” —Ernesto Garcia.
My apprenticeships, archetypal learnings, and lived experience as a mother have grounded me in ‘tender solitude,’ —the foundation of retreat. As our medicine hoops continue to grow, we reclaim our natural rhythms, innate feminine wisdom, mend ruptures, and embody our soul-home.
“I came one way, I left another. This was the single most important journey of my spiritual path.
For the first time—I belong.”
— Lila Sterling
I’m excited to meet you on retreat to hone the art of soul reclamation, to clarify who you are and what matters most for you to feel vitally alive and whole.
“Little by little, we learn, as Curanderos, that we don’t learn more. We learn that we know nothing. And from a space of not-fixing or nothingness, true healing can occur.”
—Ernesto Garcia Torres, Prajna’s Maestro
My Maestros have blessed me to mentor others. If you are interested in an apprenticeship, please send a contact request.
*Retreats with psychoactive medicine is restricted to specific locations. I invite you to explore joining us.
What does coming home mean to you?
What would change in your life if you felt more at home in your soul-body?
Our Tender Solitude* Retreats are an ode to Anam Ċara, the soul friends that walk us home — to befriend all that we are.
As an Anam Ċara Curandera, I witness your story, to help thaw your inner bud and reteach its loveliness, until it emerges again from within, with deep roots, as a self-blessing, as a coming home to your embodied self — holy and wholy — human and divine.
If you’ve been stolen from, betrayed, bereaved, anxious, numb, or experience a kind of psychic slumber, tiredness, dreamlessness, or homesickness…
If you’re hungry for a psychic shift woven in *tender solitude, with a plant medicine, curative care, in-person connections amid the beauty of Mother Earth… I welcome you to reserve your retreat.
Love, Prajna ♡
Download the free Ebook, ‘An Introductory Guide to Plant Medicine,’ read my Substack essay on ‘Tender Solitude’ to learn more.
*Tender solitude is not harsh or passive but a way of listening to inner parts—to receive provisions from the soul-place—to solicit advice or guidance that is impossible to hear in a frazzled or busy state. In darkness, we are much closer to intuitive knowing—gifts arrive from the dark.
The skin between the unconscious and conscious mind wanes considerably. Memories, feelings, and sensations rise with little resistance.
In tender solitude, we can gently sift through the accumulation of our days, inquire into them, assess, and wonder from our instinctive body, not from our rational minds:
What needs less? What needs more?
What has been unproductive?
What siphons your vitality—your passion?
What brightens your spirit?
What brings you joy?
“Humans are not truly animated until the soul gives birth to the spirit, tenders and nurses it, filling it with strength, so it can complete it’s embodied work.”
— Clarissa Pinkola Estés
“Prajna brings an uncanny ability for pain to ash, for love to glow, for joy, strength, and vital soul embodiment. As learners of Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés Réyes work, I hold Prajna’s capacity to continue the investigation and preservation of these truths in the highest regard. I cherish any opportunity to learn and grow with her. She is a true Anam Ċara (soul friend).
The work of Prajna O’Hara is rooted in archetypal psychology, plant wisdom, and the cyclical initiations of a wounded healer guided by her teachers. She skillfully uses her fate to layer texture, depth, and meaning to our unique stories.”
Imogen J. Daly
Retreat Participant and Apprentice
Are you craving inner nourishment and rest?
Are you longing for stillness and curative care of belonging ‘home’ with like-hearted friends?
Do you want to shed what doesn’t belong to you and dive into archetypal depth in a medicine hoop and bring the treasures of inner wisdom, aliveness, and new friendships back home with you?
What Retreat Offers For You
A Tender Solitude Retreat with the spirits of the plants is for anyone in need of belonging — of grounding in your instinctive wild soul home.
A Tender Solitude Retreat — we evoke and connect to our sensitivities and trace the common threads of our human longings to belonging.
A Tender Solitude Retreat is akin to a cosmic hospital. Each person is invited to come to the center of our circle for a limpia (cleaning, healing, curing) — to be witnessed — to choose — What is ending? What is beginning?
A shift unfolds — everyone benefits and celebrates.
All Retreats Include:
Tender Solitude
Ceremonies:
The number of ceremonies depends on the length of the retreat.
Guided Meditations
Nature Walks
As a group or individually.
Delicious Diet Friendly Meals
Dream Weaving
Group Process and Dynamics
Yoga, Art, Dance, Movement
Small Intimate Groups
of 8 to 22
Welcome back to your Soul-Home
– Upcoming Retreats –
Prajna facilitates retreats with a carefully selected team of initiates who are apprenticing with her. Each apprentice brings curative care, safety, and their unique gifts.
All participants are invited to follow-up with integration meetings for ongoing support.
Download your free Introduction to Plant Medicine Ebook.
This will answer many of your questions.
Schedule a free 15-minute call with Prajna
if you have additional questions.
“I feel gifted by so many insights, more physical wellbeing, and rooted deeper in myself and my ancestors. Witnessing the unfolding of every participant during the days of retreat is so magical and special. Prajna’s leading, holding, guiding and loving from the beginning to the end is priceless and such a joy to be with.”
Claudia Neubert
Retreat Participant and Apprentice
COMMON QUESTIONS:
Are medical precautions and a diet preparation required to participate?
Yes, the preparation diet and medical precautions are covered here, in the E-book guide and on the event page.
Can I arrive early and stay additonal time after the retreat?
At some venues this is possible. arrival and departure times are announced for each venue.
Can I share a room with someone?
Once you have registered you will be able to choose your housing. in many cases it is possible to share a room or to reserve a private room.
What’s the best/most local airport? Train?
We will provide travel guidance to each retreat but prefer that you do the research that suits your time and budget. If there are people organizing ride SHARING, we will let you know once you have registered.
What’s the next step if I want to attend the retreat?
If this is your first time attending a retreat with Prajna, she requests a brief discovery call on Signal or Zoom. Please contact us to request a time to speak. If you have attended a retreat, please complete the application which goes directly to Prajna. You’ll hear back within 5 business days.
“Prajna’s retreats are life-changing. I have never participated in anything so deeply healing, transformative, and empowering like these retreats. I am more alive, open to life, and connected with my heart and deeper wisdom. I am reclaiming the life I choose. Prajna is a master in the art of soul empowerment!”
Valeria Alberigo
Retreat Participant
